happiness quotes

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Money can’t buy life.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he’ll be there.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

The joy and love that I get from playing football are unbelievable. It is such a feeling that I want to give everything that I have got. I just enjoy it, I am living a life that I never even dreamt of.

Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

The happiest conversation is that of which nothing is distinctly remembered, but a general effect of pleasing impression.

I think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.

When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, ‚Oh yes – I already have everything that I really need.‘

It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy.

I’m so happy I discovered early how wonderful music makes me feel.

I’ve run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people’s support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the goodness of God and the damnation of infants.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

I won’t be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.

The happiest part of a man’s life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

I think that, whatever happens, I’m just happy I’ve written those songs and I’ve made an album. That’s really big for me, and I’m proud of that.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern… No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

More compassionate mind, more sense of concern for other’s well-being, is source of happiness.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Right now I’m just delighted to be alive and to have had a nice long bath.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.

I believe that the greatest gift you can give your family and the world is a healthy you.

Too many people measure how successful they are by how much money they make or the people that they associate with. In my opinion, true success should be measured by how happy you are.

You can be happy where you are.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

The earth laughs in flowers.

I have been very happy in the House of Representatives.

Where thou art, that is home.

You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.

I am happy and I’m single.

It’s not always been a happy marriage. I guess I wanted a quick fix.

He who is contented is rich.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.